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 Misquotes from Syntax—votes their host a fool— Will any tell, cui bono, is the grade, Of Majors General, Majors of Brigade, Of tottering staff whose peaceful pockets fill, Where all are officers and soldiers nil, Whose only care’s sufficiency of “ale,” And strive to prove their wives marsupial——— From Horse Guards patronage our shores defend’ We’ll pay the Forces; but old crones forefend.

Pray who is “Eldershaw,” where flown, where came If not a horse; one thing is clear as glass

These dry rot leaves are leavings of an Ass Mid muffs like these Sam Raymond has a chance, Long latent genius shall at last advance, Burst from the shadows where it lay entranced Like angel visits ’t will be more enhanced— Dubious and dusty dormant MSS, Escaped the mangle for the printing press, If I don’t err, old bricks, said diary know In Eastcheap, Poultry, Paternoster-row Save Bannister or Baron Field ’tis clear Brought o’er the rubbish just to shoot it here—— In bygone days, great nunquam dormiens “Bell” Fired off this squib, which hit extremely well As point blank range suits now as well then, God save the mark, why let it off again “The Gazette of St. Francisco offers dollars thousands five For the head of Peter Raymond who it seems is ell alive Happy, happy San Francisco, better far than Sydney town Where you cannot find a Raymond with a head worth half-a-crown